James Cameron slams Hollywood for making inferior movies in 3D

Melbourne: Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron has slammed Hollywood for making inferior movies in 3D.

Cameron’s 3D movie ‘Avatar’ was the world’s highest grossing movie that earned around 3 billion dollars at the box office.

Movies like ‘Clash of the Titans’ and ‘The Last Airbender’ were shot in traditional 2D and converted into 3D after seeing Avatar’s success.

“I think it’s horrible and absolutely the wrong way to go,” Cameron said before the re-release of Avatar in 3D with added footage.

“I think it’s a quick, knee-jerk reaction to seeing the gold rush happen and the studios just wanted to jump in on it and that’s the only way they could do it. It’s the studio making the decision and then handing it over to some company to process it through a sausage grinder and come up with some kind of faux 3D, or a 2 1/2D mess,” he added.

Cameron has plans of releasing his 1997 hit Titanic, the second highest grossing film, in 3D.

“We are going to release it in 2012 in 3D, but we are going to take every care to ensure it’s as indistinguishable from having been photographed in 3D as we can,” he said.

“We won’t succeed. It will wind up being 2.9D, but it will still be .9 better than the 2D we released before. These other slapdash conversions, where they are not spending the time and money and not involving the filmmaker, are like 2.2D,” The Herald Sun quoted the 55-year-old filmmaker as saying.